Just poking around through my system today. I see a directory
/etc/xinet.d complete with cupsd and telnetd config files (WTF?). I'm
sure we're all aware of the (in)security of telnetd. And yes, I had
/usr/sbin/in.telnetd but no xinetd or xinetd. /etc/var/lib/portage/world
indicates that I had
Maybe the user can't shutdown? Try the halt command from a console
using the user that you log in with KDE. Also check the logs to see if
any message appears while you command the shutdown.
I personally dislike KDE, but that's related to the fact that I don't
have such a computer (p4 3G) to run it
Howdy,
I'm seeing an interesting change in behaviour between 3.4.0 and 3.4.1.
When told to turn off or reboot the computer, KDM now exits to a console
login prompt instead of shutting down. Any ideas?
Overall 3.4.1 is feeling more stable. The only seg faults have been on
shutdown. Konqueror wo
On Friday 03 June 2005 06:41 pm, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:08:21PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> > On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:21:35 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> > > After I have the new portage tree, I then
> > >
> > > emerge --update --deep --newuse world
> >
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:07:35PM +, Michael Kjorling wrote
> Win"modems" always makes me wonder what other crap might pass for
> hardware, but that's another tale for another day and one I am sure is
> told even here frequently enough anyway.
Each time I hear about Bill Gates pushing a n
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 20:55:43, you wrote:
> So you're actually trying to reuse even the compilation work performed on
> the 'first' (let's call it 'master') machine and avoid compiling on all
> the others when you do an "emerge --update world" for instance?
That was my idea, or ra
Antonino Sabetta schreef:
> Hi all,
> I apologize for the OT, but probably you know the answer to my question
> and will be so kind as to tell me whether is there a way to receive my
> posts
> just as I receive any other message from this mailing list.
> I'm annoyed of reading threads with missing
Hi all,
I apologize for the OT, but probably you know the answer to my question
and will be so kind as to tell me whether is there a way to receive my posts
just as I receive any other message from this mailing list.
I'm annoyed of reading threads with missing pieces, especially if the
missing pie
Matthias Bethke wrote:
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 19:42:48, you wrote:
This does not answer you question, but probably could be a partial
solution: have you considered cloning the hd of the 'first' machine
and then copying it to the hd of all the others? g4u for instance
could be use
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 19:42:48, you wrote:
> This does not answer you question, but probably could be a partial
> solution: have you considered cloning the hd of the 'first' machine
> and then copying it to the hd of all the others? g4u for instance
> could be used for this purpose.
> mentioning such setups here, so I guess somebody has developed the stuff
> I'd need already? I'd be thankful for any hint or pointer...
This does not answer you question, but probably could be a partial
solution: have you considered cloning the hd of the 'first' machine
and then copying it to th
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:08:21PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:21:35 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> > After I have the new portage tree, I then
> >
> > emerge --update --deep --newuse world
> >
> > I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without having to
> > re-compile
There's some SuSE-based workstations around me here I have to take care
of. I guess they won't have to bear SuSE for much longer though.
The alternatives I can imagine now are Debian and Gentoo. Personally I'd
prefer Gentoo, but I don't feel like reinventing the weel by writing my
own deployment sc
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:21:35 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> Personally, I do a stage 3 install, then edit /etc/make.conf, then run
>
> emerge sync
>
> After I have the new portage tree, I then
>
> emerge --update --deep --newuse world
>
> I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without havin
Philip Webb wrote:
>
> IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition.
> others please correct me, if i'm mistaken.
>
I will correct you now! You can make symbolic links across partitions,
just try it!
/Andreas
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Michael Kjorling wrote:
On 2005-06-03 14:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do *NOT* use "cable select". Yes, "it works with Windoze", but then
so do "Winmodems". Set master/slave properly. You are not the first
person to have run into problems with cable select.
First off: thanks,
On 2005-06-03 14:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do *NOT* use "cable select". Yes, "it works with Windoze", but then
> so do "Winmodems". Set master/slave properly. You are not the first
> person to have run into problems with cable select.
First off: thanks, Walter! Yes, setting master/
He runs xfree-4.3 and so does not have composite at all. I also checked
for extmod and he doesnt have it enabled. I will try it though, but I
cant see how it will help in this case.
Thanks
Simon
> Maybe I am wrong (I can't actually stand terminal transparency...sure it
> looks cool, but I need t
Struggled once also with a grub problem, and there was a thing that solved
If my grub.conf was like this, :
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 (+fb +splash -agpart +sata)
root (hd0,1)
kernel=/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr splash=verbose
initrd=/initrd-gentoo-hi
Simon Maynard wrote:
>He is running FVWM, same as me. He has also had this exact same kind of
>transparency for over a year now and also in two different distributions
>and with multiple types of terminal.
>
>
Maybe I am wrong (I can't actually stand terminal transparency...sure it
looks cool,
Well, then I guess I wouldnt know. Thats the only way I've ever been
able to get Konsole or Gnome Terminal to use real alpha transperency. I
would check your Xorg config for that Extmod line I mentioned in the
other post. Without it, you cant use real alpha transperency (well at
least in my expe
Richard Fish wrote:
>maxim wexler wrote:
>
>
>
>>>Ah, some progress at last! Seems like there is a
>>>problem in the
>>>grub.conf file, but nothing too serious. Could you
>>>re-post that file?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>default 0
>>timeout 30
>>title=Gentoo
>>root (hd0,1)
>>
>>
>>
>>
050603 Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
> I tried making a symbolic link to another disk
IIRC you can make a symbolic link only within the same partition.
others please correct me, if i'm mistaken.
--
,,
SUPPORT ___//___, Phil
maxim wexler wrote:
>>I took a peek at the manual for your MB. You might
>>want to double check
>>the BIOS settings for the hard disk and make sure
>>that LBA/Large mode is
>>set to "Auto".
>>
>>
>
>It *is*. The only other choice is "disabled".
>
>
>
>>Also, what is the CHS reported by the
One other note, you will also need Load "extmod" in your X server config
file for the alpha to work. Otherwise you wont notice true alpha being
on. The easiest way to tell if you have true alpha on is to make the
taskbar transperant and then move a window BEHIND it. If you can see
the window, yo
He is running FVWM, same as me. He has also had this exact same kind of
transparency for over a year now and also in two different distributions
and with multiple types of terminal.
Its really bugging me now :-) Thanks for your input,
Simon
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:44 -0600, Ryan wrote:
> It mig
Oppsie, I told you the wrong place for the alpha transperancy. It's in
Desktop/Window Behavior/Translucency
Simon Maynard wrote:
>It shouldn't be a hardware issue as my machine has a Geforce 4 running
>the nvidia-drivers. He has a Geforce 3 running the nvidia-drivers also.
>I am also running the
It might be that he's running the new KDE alpha transparency (That is
itself in alpha stage). For Gentoo it comes in 3.4, but it is REALLY
REALLY slow for me, so I dont use it. But I noticed that the console
transperancy changes as you move the window rather than when you drop
it. You can find t
maxim wexler wrote:
>>Ah, some progress at last! Seems like there is a
>>problem in the
>>grub.conf file, but nothing too serious. Could you
>>re-post that file?
>>
>>
>>
>default 0
>timeout 30
>title=Gentoo
>root (hd0,1)
>
>
Remove the "root (hd0,1)" line. That should (I hope) let you bo
>
> Ah, some progress at last! Seems like there is a
> problem in the
> grub.conf file, but nothing too serious. Could you
> re-post that file?
>
default 0
timeout 30
title=Gentoo
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4
title=WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
> -Richard
> I took a peek at the manual for your MB. You might
> want to double check
> the BIOS settings for the hard disk and make sure
> that LBA/Large mode is
> set to "Auto".
It *is*. The only other choice is "disabled".
>
> Also, what is the CHS reported by the kernel in the
> dmesg output? If i
It shouldn't be a hardware issue as my machine has a Geforce 4 running
the nvidia-drivers. He has a Geforce 3 running the nvidia-drivers also.
I am also running the latest stable versions of everything mixed with a
few unstable packages. So it shouldn't be a problem regarding me running
out of date
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 08:12:21AM +, Michael Kjorling wrote
> (Nvidia NF3 chipset). Two PATA IDE channels on board and in use: on
> ide0, the system hard disk and a smaller one [which fails to be
> detected, but that is not a big issue], both using Cable Select; on
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Khan wrote
> Hello,
>
> I'm thinking of installing gentoo on server with Intel?? Extended Memory
> 64 Technology. Do I have to make something special in make.conf or to
> use usual flags:
>
> CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
> CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -
Ognjen Bezanov schreef:
> I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp
> resides is too full.
>
> So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of
> space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors.
>
> So im asking, how can you u
--- Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the
> partition where /var/tmp
> resides is too full.
>
> So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk
> which had a lot of
> space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me
> permission errors.
>
Hello,
Did you set the right permissions?
something like "chmod 1777 "
Of course, as long as you are linking to a directory in the other disk,
however, I don't really know what needs to be done if you are using
the whole partition in the other disk as the target for /var/tmp ...
Maybe the permi
maxim wexler wrote:
>Oops,
>
>What I was trying to say before I hit the wrong key, I
>paused the boot screen on the non-booting gentoo box
>and took a look at the HD line. It says the LBA mode
>is off. 32 bit mode is off. DMA mode is UDMA6, PIO
>mode is 4
>
>FWIW
>
I took a peek at the manual for
maxim wexler wrote:
>>You should now reboot, and get a boot menu from the
>>floppy disk. If so,
>>
>>
>
>Here's what happens: Grub loading stage2
>
>followed by the menu. Gentoo or WinXp. WinXP boots OK.
>When Gentoo is chosen however, a console opens with
>the words: Booting Gentoo
>
I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the partition where /var/tmp
resides is too full.
So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk which had a lot of
space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me permission errors.
So im asking, how can you use /var/tmp on another disk. I dont wa
Simon Maynard wrote:
>Using my friends Debian machine yesterday and his terminals had a
>"better" transparency than mine. Gnome-terminal, Eterm and Aterm all
>refreshed their transparency when moving the terminals around, whereas
>on my box I have to drop the terminal before the transparency updat
On Fri, June 3, 2005 5:55 pm, Claudinei Matos said:
> I've installed webmin on a server and I'm trying to get access there
> but always when I try I get "Login failed. Please try again." using
> root user.
> I'm not on the same network and I didn't have a gui installed on the
> server to get loca
Using my friends Debian machine yesterday and his terminals had a
"better" transparency than mine. Gnome-terminal, Eterm and Aterm all
refreshed their transparency when moving the terminals around, whereas
on my box I have to drop the terminal before the transparency updates.
He also informed me th
Hi,
I've installed webmin on a server and I'm trying to get access there
but always when I try I get "Login failed. Please try again." using
root user.
I'm not on the same network and I didn't have a gui installed on the
server to get local access via browser. I've even tryed to use links2
but the
That's why I decided to use genkernel and autoconfig, but even then I
had to take a full list of my drives and all hardware config and tweak
the kernel using menuconfig. Maybe if you take a look at yours you'll
find out that you're missing modules for your specific needs.
On 6/3/05, Zac Medico <[E
Hey
I am trying to use aterm with gnome but aterm does not seem to read
my .Xdefaults when using gnome. It works in openbox3 and fluxbox though.
I have seen in the forums that you should make a link or new file
like .Xdefaults-hostname but this hasnt worked either. What am i missing
gnome-termina
Frieder Bürzele wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have one question. Can I change the passed boot-commandline within an
>initrd-image?
>Is it possible to tell the kernel that it read the changed commandline?
>
>
>
Not AFAIK, because by the time initrd gets control, the kernel is
already booted and all internal
Hi all!
Just a quick reminder that saturday 4 sees another gathering of users
and developers in #gentoo-bugs on irc.freenode.net - a monthly gathering
affectionally known as Bugday :)
Hope you'll all have lots of fun.
Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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Ethereal/Etherape? You can view the raw information that is sent from
remote hosts on port 80, and information sent to servers at port 80.
On 6/3/05, Vincent A. Primavera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> This is great stuff. Does anybody have any suggestions as to
> applications for
--- Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've
> always been
> fascinated by graphics programming, but never found
> a tutorial that was
> simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I
> liked this tutorial.
Hi Michael,
Sounds like fu
Mulling over this a little more, I think what these messages tell me
is that the driver is expecting interrupts on level 3 :
eth0: 3Com 3c562, io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:60:97:FE:BE:6C
but they are actually occuring on level 11:
irq 11: nobody cared!
Disabling IRQ #11
So the next ques
--- Michael Kjorling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NFORCE3-250: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly.
> ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Hi Michael,
Does your DVD drive still work with the livecd? If so
you probably don't need to replace the drive. I ran a
search for th
Oops,
What I was trying to say before I hit the wrong key, I
paused the boot screen on the non-booting gentoo box
and took a look at the HD line. It says the LBA mode
is off. 32 bit mode is off. DMA mode is UDMA6, PIO
mode is 4
FWIW
-mw
__
Disc
> You should now reboot, and get a boot menu from the
> floppy disk. If so,
Here's what happens: Grub loading stage2
followed by the menu. Gentoo or WinXp. WinXP boots OK.
When Gentoo is chosen however, a console opens with
the words: Booting Gentoo
root (hd0,1)
then nothi
Michael Sullivan schreef:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 16:44 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
>
>>Michael Sullivan schreef:
>>
>>>I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been
>>>fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was
>>>simple enough for me to follow in the
Check out the forums for info on this topic. My last installed was
based off this thread:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319349.html (info thread)
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314985-highlight-emwrap.html
(support thread)
The main goals of this install method are:
1. Eliminate the
I modprobed svglib_helper and put it into
my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file. When I tried to run the
tutorial program again I got this:
Not running in a graphics capable console,
and unable to find one.
Using SAVAGE driver, 12288KB. Chipset: ProSavage
Not running in a graphics capable co
Holly Bostick wrote:
>Michael Sullivan schreef:
>
>
>>I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been
>>fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was
>>simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial.
>>It provided source code for
Michael Sullivan schreef:
> I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been
> fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was
> simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial.
> It provided source code for a simple c program that just
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 09:13 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote:
> > I thought that ncurses would be automatically rebuild due to the "--
> > newuse" statement in my emerge command?
>
> I didn't see ncurses in your USE line.
No, I assumed that dependency information would pick it up
automatically.
> I usu
> Hi guys,
>
>
> If you have any opinions / recommendations concernign this issue,
> please let me know. I am really interested in the gentoo users opinion,
> (and myself being a libra, i hope i will able to make up my mind :-))
>
> jakub
>
> gmail - the best way to share your privacy with others
Hello,
This is great stuff. Does anybody have any suggestions as to
applications for monitoring web traffic(browsing) etc?
--
Thank you,
Vincent A. Primavera.
- Original Message -
From: Mark Shields
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 9:
I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've always been
fascinated by graphics programming, but never found a tutorial that was
simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I liked this tutorial.
It provided source code for a simple c program that just plots a pixel
to the screen. I co
A. GENKERNEL
Well, I have now built a genkernal system to see if that helped, and
it didn't seem to. It got noticably less far than my manually configured
kernel, in that it did not recognise any PCMCIA slots at all :-(
It also produced a suspicious error message during boot:
/sbin/rc: lin
Hi,
I have one question. Can I change the passed boot-commandline within an
initrd-image?
Is it possible to tell the kernel that it read the changed commandline?
Thx
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Yeah, that solved the problem, it seems that the mask 600 appear more
"secure" to xdm than 660 :) that and group permissions and it was all
working, thanks to all of you!!!
On 6/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I definitely think it's ownership related. The problem is somewhere
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 08:28, Jules Colding wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
> > Jules Colding wrote:
> > > USE="-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples
> > > tetex"
> > >
> > > Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The outpu
I definitely think it's ownership related. The problem is somewhere
between pam and udev, but i think it's more likely pam. I experienced a
very similar (if not the same) issue some time ago. When you start xdm,
it starts as root, and somehow, something sets very restrictive (600)
permissions o
That is about the line that i was thinking. I definitely will not make
it part of the same vg, that would be insane. The scsi disk would be
also under lvm management, with the exception of / (i don't use /boot
as a separate mount point), because i might be able to probably add one
more 9GB scsi
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
> Jules Colding wrote:
> > USE="-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples
> > tetex"
> >
> > Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is
> > below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged m
Jules Colding wrote:
> USE="-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples
> tetex"
>
> Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is
> below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged manually.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67524
http://bug
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:38, Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> If you have any opinions / recommendations concernign this issue,
> please let me know. I am really interested in the gentoo users opinion,
> (and myself being a libra, i hope i will able to make up my mind :-))
I'd mirror, and LVM the 2 IDE d
Jakub Krajcovic wrote:
> Should i leave the SCSI disk out of raid/lvm, and install the system on
> it, with the user data going to the RAID on top of the 2 IDE disks? (i
> quite inclined to do this). Or, would it be OK to stick all of the 3
> disks into a RAID5?, (but i dont' really feel comfortabl
On Thu, 02 Jun 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I re-emerged cups, got cupsd to hold, setup my deskjet 722c as
> parralel port 0, It said everything was good, but the test page
> will not print!
Suggestion:
Change in /etc/cupsd.conf:
LogLevel info
to LogLevel debug
or even
to LogLevel debug2
Th
Hi,
I did:
emerge --update --deep --newuse world
after having changed my USE flags to:
USE="-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples tetex"
Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is
below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged manuall
Richard Fish wrote:
>rob3 wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hi guys,
>>
>>I am very interested in encrypted directories and/or disks. Right now
>>I am using ext3. Where can I find more info? The docs page at
>>Gentoo?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Probably, but someone else will have to point you to that.
>
>For dm-crypt: h
Bob Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:25:20 -0300
> Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>rc.conf to use xdm and everything works ok, but I have no sound, I
>>tried command-line and X apps, and none has access to the alsa, oss or
>>esound drivers.
>
> It's probably pam. Look as /de
maxim wexler wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html
HTH,
Michael
Thanks for the tip. But before I try this(and this
goes for Richard F's suggestion) how do I safely get
rid of the grub I have? Or do I need to? The emerge -C
flag comes w/ dire warnings, The manual e
Hi guys,
it has been a long time since i was last subscribed to this list, (we
were still running gentoo 1.4 then), so let me say hello to everyone, i
love being in the gentoo community.
No, let me get to the point. In the near future, i am going to migrate
one server for a local highschool
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ah, sounds similar to the discussion on
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-23080.html
short version: make sure the drivers for the hdd device and filesystem
are compiled into the kernel and doubld check your grub.conf kernel= line.
- --myk
Gento
On 6/3/05, Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm thinking of installing gentoo on server with Intel(r) Extended Memory
> 64 Technology. Do I have to make something special in make.conf or to
> use usual flags:
IIRC these chips are x86_64 compatible, so unless you have any
specific reas
in /boot/grub/grub.conf, did you change your kernel root?
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
HTH,
Roy
Gentoo Linux Mailing List Client wrote:
>yeah I did that as well.
>grub is not the problem as far as I can tell.
>I get the boot menu just fine.
>my system stops when it tries to (re
If this is better asked on gentoo-amd64, please let me know.
I am new to Gentoo, but have used GNU/Linux as the only operating
system whenever I have a choice (on workstations and servers) since
early 2001. Even then, this has me really stumped. Maybe someone can
offer some insight...
Setup: AMD6
Hello,
I'm thinking of installing gentoo on server with Intel® Extended Memory
64 Technology. Do I have to make something special in make.conf or to
use usual flags:
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-
On Fri, June 3, 2005 5:59 am, Michael Haan said:
> b) Rebuild myth from portage, insuring that it's built against XvMC from
> nVidia.
emerge -pv mythtv shows an nvidia USE flag. Grepping
/usr/portage/profiles/use.* for nvidia shows
/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:media-tv/mythtv:nvidia - E
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